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Title: Interview with Sitharsana Srithas
Description: UTSC student talks about the university's student initiatives and activities to discuss and advocate for Indigenous issues.
Subject: Ethnicity, Indigeneity, Race, Student experience, Women

Title: Interview with Craig Heron
Description: Craig Heron, as a former professor of working-class history at York University, highlights the link between activism and history. Craig discusses how the New Left has contributed to his political involvement in protests for the democratization of the university as a UofT student and later involvements in strikes as a faculty member at York University. Lastly, Craig touches upon his initiatives as the President of Toronto Worker’ History Project, especially in regards to the production of community plays that he wrote surrounding different historical themes such as the Russian Revolution and the Winnipeg General Strike.
Subject: Activism, Student experience, Diversity, Faculty experience

Title: Interview with Karen Aboud
Description: Karen Aboud talks about her experience as an active UTSC student, both academically and in her extracurricular activities. She discusses topics ranging from her professors and classes to her involvement in student council and rallies. As a student from the first graduating class of Scarborough College in the 1960s, Aboud relays the impression she got of the layout of Scarborough in the early years of the College.
Subject: Activism, Buildings, Extra-curricular activities, Facilities, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Jeff Rybak
Description: Jeff Rybak, a graduate of UTSC, discusses the campus' student and academic culture during the early 2000s. He touches upon his life as a student leader and how the role has shaped his university experience and how he had interacted with its faculty. He also explains how his time at UTSC has influenced his life, created lifelong ties, and inspired his career choices.
Subject: Community, Diversity, Extra-curricular activities, Leadership, Student experience, Transportation, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Title: Interview with Gerald Cupchik
Description: Gerald Cupchik recounts his journey to becoming a psychology professor at UTSC. His story began from when he decided to be a professor of social psychology at the age of 12, through his time at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin amid social unrest and civil rights movements, until he began teaching at the University of Toronto 45 years ago. Professor Cupchik uses this experience to note the ways in which academics have changed, namely through its current heightened professionalism and increased isolation. He highlights the importance of survival and connecting with your roots along with creating a community, or village, of learning in his office as he encourages his students to pursue real life research.
Subject: Community, Education, Employment, Faculty experience, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Frank Prato
Description: Frank Prato talks about his experience living in the Scarborough community and attending Scarborough College.
Subject: Buildings, Facilities, Immigration, Student experience, Transportation

Title: Interview with Joe Jagdeo
Description: Dr. Joe Jagdeo talks about his experience as one of the first international students at Scarborough College and as a student of its first graduating class. He touches on his immigration process and his impressions of Canada upon his arrival. He shares stories of his time at Scarborough College, in medical school, at SickKids, and his career at Scarborough General Hospital. He also comments on the growth and changing demographics of Scarborough and how it has impacted his medical career.
Subject: Diversity, Education, Housing, Immigration, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Leslie Chan
Description: Leslie Chan discusses his history at UTSC as an undergraduate student, teaching assistant, and later professor. He begins by discussing what drew him to the campus and his relationship with faculty, and he also talks about the school’s student clubs. Professor Chan also touches upon his experience in residence, as well as living in the Scarborough community. He also reflects on how UTSC, in terms of its library, study spaces, and services, has changed over the years.
Subject: Community, Education, Faculty experience, Student experience, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Title: Interview with Shirley Criscione
Description: Shirley Criscione shares her student experiences as one of the first graduates of Scarborough College in 1968. Shirley highlights how the campus culture was during those years, particularly the impact of having such a small student body (less than 200 students). The campus community was tight knit, where "everybody knew everybody." Shirley also recalls how the larger society was reflected on campus, particularly the roles that women took, the demographics of the student body, what students were expected to wear, and even the normalcy of smoking at the time.
Subject: Buildings, Education, Facilities, Student experience, Transportation

Title: Interview with Paul Harpley
Description: Paul Harpley, environmental scientist and wildlife painter, describes growing up in Scarborough in the 1960s and his time at Scarborough College first in the 1970s. He shares memories of public transport, his grandparents' cabin at the mouth of Rouge River and Scarborough's urban development. Harpley reflects upon UTSC's impact on his personal life, his environmental activism and his career in natural heritage.
Subject: Activism, Architecture, Campus growth, Community, Employment, Environmentalism, Scarborough College, Student experience, Transportation

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